In this section, I have included a list of my favourite links for teachers. If you are a teacher that has attended any of my talks / workshops, you will be able to access the handouts at the bottom of the page as long as you know the password.

 

Grammar Revision Quiz for teachers:

How "rusty" is your grammar theory from University? Do you fancy having fun trying this small quiz? It's not easy to get more than 90% score at the first attempt!! If you do so ... congratulations!!!

If you try this quiz, I'm sure you're going to brush up some concepts that you might have forgotten

 

RECOMMENDED LINKS FOR TEACHERS

THE SING ALONG PROJECT (highly recommendable)

BUYING BOOKS & DVDS IN ENGLISH (AMAZON UK)

In Association with Amazon.co.uk

In Association with Amazon.co.uk

RECORDING VIDEOS FROM THE INTERNET (Replay Media Catcher)

http://www.applian.com/ 

 

CONVERTING VIDEOS (different formats)

Super (freeware programme)

http://media-convert.com/ (free web that converts most video formats)

 

BURNING VIDEOS ON A CD/DVD FOR CLASSROOM USE (NERO)

http://www.nero.com

EXTRACTING / RECORDING AUDIO FILES OR CDS INTO MP3

Audacity: (free: it doesn’t extract cd tracks. It only records voice: the greatest advantage is that it is a multi-track recorder)

AudioGrabber (It extracts cd tracks and records voice. It’s completely free)

Blade Encoder Lame Mp3 (free mp3 encoder -required to save files in mp3 format-

 

TO GET VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com

http://guide.real.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/

http://abcasiapacific.com/englishbites/archives.htm

http://real.feedroom.com/

http://www.euronews.net/ (Real Superpass subscription needed)

http://es.wwitv.com/

http://www.english-trailers.com

http://www.yatv.com/

http://www.imdb.com/

 

TO GET REAL PLAYER

http://www.realone.com

 

VIRTUAL LABS

http://www.esl-lab.com/

 

TEACHING MATERIALS AND IDEAS

http://www.onestopenglish.com/

ESL-lounge

Isabel's ESL site

The Internet TESL Journal

http://www.eslcafe.com/

APAC

CRLE

 

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/

BBC Learning English

LearnEnglish Central

Edufind

 

READING

Breaking News English.

Crayon

Studentnewsnet

SWIM

 

WRITING

ReviseWise

SWIM

 

SPEAKING

talkenglish

Focus English

Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom

 

WEB QUESTS & SCAVENGER HUNTS

Scavenger hunts at Green Valley

Scavenger hunts at Education World

http://www.xtec.es/recursos/webquests/

WebQuest portal

Webquests templates and generators

 

TELEMATIC, COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS & EPALS

Global Schoolnet

Etwinning

International Education And Resource Network.

Kidlink

ePals.com

 

BLOGS

Blogger

 

FREE AUDIO BOOKS

http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/

 

CULTURE & TRADITIONS

http://www.learnenglish.de/britishculture.htm

 

 

TO GET VIDEOS IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

GERMAN

http://www.tagesschau.de/

http://www.youtube.com

http://guide.real.com/

http://www.euronews.net/ (Real Superpass subscription needed)

http://es.wwitv.com/

FRENCH

http://videos.tf1.fr/

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.euronews.net/ (Real Superpass subscription needed)

http://es.wwitv.com/

SPANISH

http://www.euronews.net/ (Real Superpass subscription needed)

http://www.yatv.com

http://www.youtube.com

http://es.wwitv.com/

CATALAN

http://www.xtec.es/videoteca/

http://www.youtube.com

http://es.wwitv.com/

 

TEACHERS WHO HAVE ATTENDED

ONE OF MY SESSIONS

 

You can download the presentation handout with all the instructions, ideas, etc:

Remember it is in PDF format (you need Adobe acrobat reader installed in your computer to open it).

 

Important: introduce the password and then click on the button "password required" (don't use the ENTER key)

 

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